Aims and Scope: Shodh Sari-An International Multidisciplinary Journal is an international scholarly/ academic journal, peer-reviewed/ refereed journal for faculty and research scholars. The journal is multidisciplinary and serves as a forum for the exchange of the ideas and information related to the development of education, sciences, arts, humanities, commerce, management, engineering, technology, law, health, agriculture, fashion studies, social studies, behavioral sciences, psychology, applied sciences, tourism & hospitality, journalism & mass communication, research, vocational studies, and other domains for the welfare of community. Articles focus upon concepts, practices and research in multiple disciplines. The journal invites articles in English and Hindi language only. All articles undergo initial editor screening, peer review and review by the editorial board. Articles/ manuscripts submitted by the authors with author declaration and copy rights to publish are the property of ICERT, although the journal is open access journal but permission to reproduce articles must be requested from the editors by concerned if reproducing for profit gain, personal gain or any commercial purpose.

Readers of the Journal: The journal is open for all readers including students, research scholars, faculty members, and researchers, interested in the disciplines published by the Journal.

Publication Fee: The journal is published by Research and Publication Division ICERT. The journal doesn’t charge any article processing fee or author fee or publication fee.

Open Access Statement: Shodh Sari is an open access journal which means the content is freely available with out any charges to the users or institutions for the welfare of education fraternity and society. Researchers/ users are allowed to download, copy, print, search, or links to the full text articles, etc. for the lawful purpose not for profit gain.

Copyright and License: Intellectual Property
Privacy Statement
The journal respects the intellectual property rights of authors and the confidential information shared by the authors with the journal is used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal and will not be made available to any other party.

Copyright
In order to publish and disseminate research articles, we need certain publishing rights from authors, which are determined by a publishing agreement/ author declaration between the author and the Journal.
Authors grant declaration and consent, a copyright, to publish the article in Shodh Sari and identify itself as the original publisher. Copyright to any open access article in the journal is retained by the author(s) and the publisher only. Authors retain following rights:
Retain patent and trademark rights, rights to use their research data freely without any restriction, receive proper attribution and credit for their published work, re-use their own material in new works without permission, use and share their works for scholarly purposes (with full acknowledgement of the original article), publicly share the preprint on any website or repository at any time, publicly share the accepted manuscript on non-commercial sites, and publicly share the final published article.

License
The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 formalizes these and other terms and conditions of publishing articles. The journal chooses the licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only. All readers are free to read and use the article, as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

All authors need to submit following consent with the manuscript to the editor.

Author declaration/ Author consent/ License agreement
In submitting an article to the journal, I certify that:

1.  I am authorized by my co-authors to enter into these arrangements.

2.  I warrant, on behalf of myself and my co-authors, that:

• the article is original, has not been formally published in any other journal, is not under consideration by any other journal and does not infringe any existing copyright or any other third-party rights;

• I am/we are the sole author(s) of the article and have full authority to enter into this agreement and in granting rights to Shodh Sari are not in breach of any other obligation;

• the article contains nothing that is unlawful, libelous, or which would, if published, constitute a breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy;

• I/we have taken due care to ensure the integrity of the article. To my/our - and currently accepted scientific - knowledge all statements contained in it purporting to be facts are true and any formula or instruction contained in the article will not, if followed accurately, cause any injury, illness or damage to the user.

• If I am using any personal details or images of patients, research subjects or other individuals, I have obtained all consents required by applicable law and complied with the publisher’s policies relating to the use of such images or personal information.

3.  I, and all co-authors, agree that the article, if editorially accepted for publication, shall be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.

4. copyright and all rights under it.I have the consent of each author (co-authors) to transfer and assign any and all right, title, and interest, including copyright of the article referenced above. I hereby assign and transfer to the Editor Shodh Sari

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Explanatory notes: The Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 provides the following summary (where ‘you’ equals ‘the user’):

You are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, but not commercially.
The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms

Under the following terms:
Attribution— you must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

No additional restrictions—you may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Manuscript Deposition, and Digital Preservation
Shodh Sari automatically deposits open access articles in institutional repository. Authors publishing in the Journal are encouraged to add the final published PDF in their ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia, SSRN or other research identifiers, or on any suitable research profilers/ identifiers on publication, however to protect the integrity and authenticity of the scientific record, authors will add published content link from the journal website to the research identifier/ profiler website. Research and Publication Division ICERT ensures that publications are preserved and available for future scholars, researchers, and students. The Journal endeavours to ensure that our content remains accessible and usable to our readers, regardless of media failure and technological change. So, the we deposit all contents on the institutional repository.